Sumit serves as the chief data scientist in CGI Federal’s Emerging Technology Practice. He leads a team of data engineers and data scientists who are defining and driving technical direction of prospective business opportunities, and work with business stakeholders and client executives to develop overall enterprise data strategy. Sumit has a background in computer science with over 14 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing large-scale, data-centric and enterprise systems. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at that university, with a focus on large-scale machine learning.